It can, of course.But the results are atrocious when it comes to presenting the undisputed facts of events.

To investigate the murder of President John Kennedy, the new President, Lyndon Johnson, appointed a commission of seven members to what became known as the Warren Commission.This commission took the place of other groups that sought to call witnesses and examine evidence, such as a grand jury in Texas.

The Warren Report did not deliver the facts of the case.Instead it ignored reliable witnesses and allowed fabricated evidence in its conclusion, which was designed to blame an innocent person for what only agents of the government could have done.

Other government agencies and commissions have failed to arrive at the truth.A group of Los Angeles Police Department officers, including Robert Houghton, wrote Special Unit Senator to give the government's account of the murder of Robert Kennedy.They, too, framed an innocent person in part by distorting the distance and the direction the accused was in relation to Kennedy and ignoring overwhelming evidence of bullets unaccounted for.

Many years after the fact, a Congressional committee considered the "October Surprise" story of Ronald Reagan campaign advisors making a deal with the Iranian leaders to delay the release of United States hostages.The Committee ignored evidence of the Iranians suddenly becoming uninterested in talking to the Jimmy Carter Administration, pilot testimony of flying Reagan's representatives to France and Vice-Presidential candidate George H.W. Bush's hollow alibi in whitewashing the whole story.

Now our nation needs the truth about the attacks of 9/11 and other incidents so as to form the best policy in regards to our security. Already another presidential commission has assured us that the government was not involved in the attacks.It is time to use a different method to get the truth before the perpetrators strike again.

We could use a grand jury in New York to gather testimony and allow the panel to decide whom to indict and then send the accused to trial.But while it sounds ideal to use our legal system in this way, our court system has shown little success in convicted agents of the government and there is little reason for this to be any different.

The solution is to let the public decide.

Let the "conspiracy" researchers like Michael Ruppert, James Fetzer and Alex Jones form a team, allow them to assemble their final conclusion based on fulfilling the elements of crimes and then allow them to be cross-examined by government officials and anyone else who believes the official theory.The government could then present its own evidence and after a reasonable amount of cross-examination, the two sides would finish their cases.

Then let the public cast its votes on who told the truth.We would have polling places in the same manner as elections and only persons sworn to neutrality would count the votes as to which side it believed.No matter the tally, people would still debate 9/11 but because two sides would compete in an adversarial process, we would all know more about the truth than ever before.

As a child, I heard about the Vietnam War. A television program told me that the United States lost the war. Because I had believed my country always won, I disbelieved what the program said for quite some time.

Instead I went to a trusted source: my grandmother. She would never lie to me. She told me that we had, in fact, lost the war and why. Because I trusted her, I reconsidered the subject and later researched it and ascertained facts which confirmed what she said.

It could be said that my analysis of whether we won the war became a contest of trust in my grandmother's logic and honesty versus trust in my prior belief. My belief simply gave way to the facts.

This same battle between logic and conviction divides the public and keeps us from understanding the society in which we live and its history.In the debate over the John Kennedy assassination, facts emerge. Lee Harvey Oswald could not have been at the alleged crime scene because he did not have the time to run from there to where he was positively seen soon after. No one saw him bring a rifle to work that day and the rifle allegedly used was not the same size as the one he allegedly ordered. The only witness who claimed to have seen him shoot a rifle at the president, Howard Brennan, changed his point of view several times and was not thought a reliable witness by the Warren Commission.

I could go on. This set of facts (and others) makes for a completely different story than the official one given by the Commission. But others with whom I discuss this matter cling to their belief in the official version of events and look for ways to explain my facts to suit their conclusion. It seems they cannot bring themselves to believe that our government lied to them about who murdered a president.

Belief can assist a person in feeling better about themselves and their future. But belief itself is not the same as the truth. The truth is like a set of dominos that will fall only in one direction when all relevant facts are known.

The battle between belief and truth continues today. There is a wall of belief that our government would never do anything as horrible as murdering anyone or lying about reasons for starting a war or rig a presidential election. This wall is really one of denial.

Facts again tell the true story that government agents participated in 9/11, that the Bush Administration lied about the lack of threat Saddam Hussein presented to the U.S. in starting the war in Iraq in 2003 and that the Supreme Court used false logic to give the 2000 election to Bush. Instead of reconsidering and possibly accepting the truth, there are those who hold on to the wall.

This is the wall that must come down before we can make wise decisions as to the future of our country. The sooner we quit denying truth, the better off all of us will be.

Human depression slows a person's thoughts down.As a result, a depressed person cannot concentrate on their problems and possible solutions as well as others.The constant aggravation of failing to cope and the accumulation of new issues then contribute to their perceived lack of interest in society.

In contemporary U.S. culture, our government and most of society act as though they cannot concentrate on the real problems before them.Our President and Congress agree quickly that they want to help the people with concerns such as health care, but cannot form a plan to increase the number of people insured.The public then gets the message that the government as a whole does not care about them.

The two parties aggravate one another.Republicans say that President Obama won't listen to them and Democrats say that Republicans do not want to vote for anything.This lack of trust becomes a new issue that bogs the government's thoughts down, inhibits its ability to identify leading issues to address and frustrates the public further because the arguments do not suit them.

The cycle of negativity develops even further when many people have trouble finding jobs and paying their bills.Those with jobs listen to others complain and their thoughts are affected.

The one good thing about depression is that it is not the same as hopelessness.

Depression does not cause anyone to harm themselves or others.Depressed people cannot concentrate long enough to form those types of thoughts.But hopeless people can.

Hopeless people think and they think frequently.They think about whether they matter to others and whether the world would be better off without them.When hope is gone, one's ability to reason good answers to these types of questions leaves soon after.

President Obama speaks about hope but he and our depressed nation must take this idea one step further.False hope serves no purpose; we need to visualize the things in front of us that we look forward to.

We need to make the wheels of our nation's brains turn faster.We can do that by reminding ourselves that our nation has overcome bigger problems than the ones we face.Most of all, we need to regard our ability to see ourselves in a positive way as our right and the best path to all types of prosperity.

Agents of our government have committed several crimes, most notably the events of September 11, 2001.

They will not be punished.

They or other agents will continue to commit more crimes.

Neither main party will seriously investigate the crimes.

Anyone elected president either had a hand in these crimes or has resolved to push the official version of events.

The lies will continue.

What are those of us who can read the writing on the wall going to do?

Let's go through the possibilities:

Revolution Forget it.The bloodshed of innocent people alone should rule this option out.

Prosecute the criminals we can identify No.Remember how Jim Garrison was smeared for daring to try Clay Shaw for the murder of JFK.Do you really think our government will play fair if someone tries an agent like Dick Cheney?

Elect people who will investigate these crimes No way.What wealthy or corporate interests who thrive upon the current government will support these candidates?

Flee the country Good idea except that these problems of government corruption are all over the world.

Don't pay income taxes People who believe this is justified may be right but they often do jail time.

You might conclude that we cannot win.But you are wrong.We need to understand the game we are playing before it is too late.

The conspirators have played a game in which they know they can act with impunity.They murdered the Kennedys and blamed it on people they called "nuts."They knew that the public would feel more comfortable that one psychopath did the crime than the idea that many people with power conspired to carry it out.

Then they continued the immoral war in Viet Nam.

We got fooled again, even after revelations of CIA-sponsored coups of democratic leaders and secret wars, when few challenged the war the conspirators started "against terror" in Afghanistan shortly after 9/11.Now we can't get out of there.

The way to win this game is to look back at history and apply it when the time is right:

We should recall the way victims of racism played the game to gain civil rights.The authorities sometimes made mistakes and handed them opportunities by enforcing laws that were wrong.People demanded to be served at lunch counters.A woman refused to give up her seat on the bus.The white people whom the authorities counted on to help enforce policy got the message that enough was enough.

With the government grasping at straws with the proposal of body scans at airports, using drones to kill innocent people and an Administration official who wants to make conspiracy thought illegal, the chance to stand up and stop the conspirators' momentum will arrive.Just be ready.